Lots of desk jockeys dream of ditching their ho-hum corporate jobs for a life of travel. Leon Logothetis actually did it.

In 2005, Logothetis was a 28-year-old broker working in London. Suffering from chronic depression, he decided to set out to hitchhike across America, from New York to LA, relying on just $5 a day and the kindness of strangers.

He managed to turn that life-affirming adventure into a career as an author, motivational speaker and TV host. His latest inspirational travelogue series, “The Kindness Diaries,” which premiered in the US on Netflix last month, chronicles Logothetis’ 25,000-mile journey circumnavigating the globe on a vintage yellow motorcycle — which he dubbed “Kindness One.”

“What inspired me to leave the job in the first place was watching the movie ‘The Motorcycle Diaries,’ which is a romanticized version of Che’s [Guevara] trip across South America, and relied on kindness,” Logothetis, 40, tells The Post. “He did it on a motorcycle with a friend … but I didn’t have a friend coming with me so that’s why I have a sidecar, so I could pick people up along the way.”

The 13-episode series follows him on the months-long trip, which began in late summer 2013 and finished in early 2014, hitting 20 countries — from the US to Spain, Turkey, India, Thailand, Vietnam and Canada. Traveling with no money, Logothetis had to count on the generosity of people he met along the way for food, shelter, and gasoline.

For this trip, he also added a pay-it-forward element — rewarding the random acts of kindness he received with his own charitable gestures, like paying (out of his own pocket) for plane tickets for a couple to attend their son’s wedding abroad or rebuilding the home of an HIV-positive mother.

“I’ve never wanted to just give money to people — although helpful, it isn’t really what kindness is all about,” he says. “Kindness is about getting to know someone, getting to relate to someone, connecting with them and figuring out … an opportunity that could truly change their lives.”

Kindness is about getting to know someone, getting to relate to someone, connecting with them and figuring out … an opportunity that could truly change their lives.

That’s not to say the whole experience was sunshine and rainbows. Logothetis, who traveled with a production crew of three, spent one rainy night sleeping on the street with a homeless man in Pittsburgh. While he never had to go days without food, meals were unreliable — one day could be a feast, the next he’d go hungry. The hardest part of the journey was the constant rejection — on average nine out of 10 people he asked for help would say no.

Logothetis, who was “bullied pretty mercilessly” as a kid, was continually impressed, however, by the hospitality he did receive — often from those who had the least to give. And viewers are responding to his message of kindness. While Netflix doesn’t release viewership data, anecdotally Logothetis says he’s received, “without exaggeration, thousands of messages” from fans.

“When something gets put into the ether that’s celebrating compassion and empathy, it just opens up a wellspring of emotions,” he says.